Opinion I Went on a Fast From Trump. Felt Great. I Get It Now. He's a Loser
The fast helped me see you for the first time, Trump. And why you like Bibi, the kind of man who has a price tag where a conscience was meant to go
Bradley Burston
Bradley Burston is a Haaretz columnist and Senior Editor of Haaretz.com which publishes his blog, "A Special Place in Hell."
During the first Palestinian uprising, Burston served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and was the paper's military correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War.
In the mid-1990s he covered Israeli-Arab peace talks for Reuters. In 2006, he received the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations.
A native of Los Angeles, Burston moved to Israel after graduation from Berkeley. He was part of a group which established Kibbutz Gezer, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Burston served in the IDF as a combat medic, later studying medicine in Be'er Sheva for two years before turning to journalism. He is married and has two daughters.
Opinion How GOP's anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi Campaigns Fared in the Midterms
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Opinion Thank You, America's Women. You May Yet Save the World – From Trump
Thank you, America's women, for choosing history over pre-history. You made the difference in this election. You saved us
Opinion Why I Call the Pittsburgh Massacre a Pogrom, and Trump a Czar
There is a czar in Washington, who has nothing against the Jews as a whole. But one who lets his people know about Jews who, he signals, seek to ruin the lives of Real Americans, that is, his loyal followers
Prayer There Was a Pogrom This Week, Lord. In the United States of America
There was a terrible darkness in Your house, Lord. But then there was light
Opinion Relax. Trump Won't Put All the Jews in Camps. Only the Democrats
After all, if you can get people to gradually forget about the thousands of children whom you've stripped of their parents, caged, and now packed off to a camp in a desert area outside El Paso, you can get away with anything
Opinion Blacklist: Top 13 Delegitimizers Who Should Be Denied Entry Into Israel
It's high time that we who are concerned for Israel's welfare went after the worst of its delegitimizers, those who contribute the most to the criticism of Israel as a repressive, illiberal regime
Opinion What Will You Say When Your Kids Ask About Trump, and the End of America?
Trump, meantime, knows exactly what he wants your kids to think, do, know. As president – that is, as the primary role model for America's children – he is teaching your kids by his every word, grimace, dog-whistle and tweet
Opinion Trump, Kavanaugh and the Rape Culture of the American Jock
I learned from an early age not to talk about this. I want to talk about this now
Opinion Would Trump Save Israel in the Next War?
Given his complex relationship with Putin - for all that anyone knows, given his debtor relationship with Putin - would Trump even be capable of intervening in a meaningful way?
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Everywhere, even in gun country, southern strategy country, Trump country, there was reverence, a moment of stepping back, an expression of respect. Every place but one
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The real terror that Netanyahu feels is the fear that Arab and Jew will rise up together
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The law has given fresh ammunition to Orthodox officials who question the Jewishness – and thus, by extension, the citizenship and other rights – of nearly one of every six Israeli Jews, a million in all
Opinion Dear Bibi: Israel's in Far Worse Danger Than You Ever Thought
Somewhere inside, you know the nation-state law is the single most devastating mistake you've ever made. It's all coming out now. What you're made of. What this country is made of. You are what you hide
Opinion If You're Happy With This Israel, Clap Your Hands
Way back in October, Netanyahu paved the way for the nation-state law by making clear the underlying, unifying ideology of the pro-Israel hard right: The Zionism of Nasty
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Look around. The country looks the same. But it doesn't feel the same. Not even close. A day of mourning has come
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What happens if Trump’s summit debacle this week proves to mark the beginning of the end of the American president’s obstacle-studded political road?
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Even for Israel – where 'normal' never is – there was something exceptionally peculiar in the prime minister's response to the Trump-Putin meeting
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Benjamin Netanyahu has a message for you. 'Jewish' is not what this state is. Our message, our mission has become something else. And it starts with an F.